Following yesterday’s news that Torrent-tracking giant The Pirate Bay have moved their server to The Cloud, claiming to have become “raid-proof” in the process, it seems that Megaupload have done likewise.

Speaking to Wired, the file-sharing site’s infamous boss Kim Dot Com [above] revealed that Megaupload’s latest project will simply be titled Mega. Him and his partners in Megaupload describe Mega as “a unique tool that will solve the liability problems faced by cloud storage services, enhance the privacy rights of internet users, and provide themselves with a simple new business.”

“What Mega and Megaupload do have in common”, Wired continue. “Is that they are both one-click, subscriber-based cloud platforms that allow customers to upload, store, access, and share large files. Dotcom, and his Mega partner Mathias Ortmann say the difference is that now those files will first be one-click-encrypted right in a client’s browser, using the so-called Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm. The user is then provided with a second unique key for that file’s decryption.

“It will be up to users, and third-party app developers, to control access to any given uploaded file, be it a song, movie, videogame, book, or simple text document. Internet libertarians will surely embrace this new capability.

“And because the decryption key is not stored with Mega, the company would have no means to view the uploaded file on its server. It would, Ortmann explains, be impossible for Mega to know, or be responsible for, its users’ uploaded content — a state of affairs engineered to create an ironclad “safe harbor” from liability for Mega, and added piece of mind for the user.”

“If servers are lost, if the government comes into a data center and rapes it, if someone hacks the server or steals it, it would give him nothing,” Dotcom explains. “Whatever is uploaded to the site, it is going to be remain closed and private without the key.”

In short, because Mega won’t be hosting the files – as Megaupload was – the responsibility is with the user rather than the program, while the encrypting process presumably makes it harder for labels, for instance, to know if their files are being pirated, in the same way that Mega claim it’s “impossible” for them to know.

Last month, Dot Com posted a trailer video for the beta version of the Megabox, a website that he’s claimed will be Megaupload’s alternative to a record label. You can read more about that here and here. Megaupload was infamously shut down at the start of the year, leading to months of back-and-forth involving the US government, Anonymous and more.